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Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are effectively paying 8x the price.
I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.
But apparently these services assume everyone is too dumb to scroll through a long list and find things on their own.
So there's a landing page where the same titles appear in four different places on the same page, you have no idea what's available, items disappear without warning because of licensing issues, and the UI looks like something an intern designed.
Which is why I've been watching random niche user-made content on YouTube instead, and it's fresher, more relaxing, and usually more interesting.
Corporate streaming feels like so much effort for so little reward.
Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are effectively paying 8x the price.
Why do you say it's a fixed amount of content? Finite, sure, but it's not fixed.
One counter point to why I personally pay for Disney+ is that I have kids, and kids love repeat content. I don't think new content particularly matters to them, at least not at their age. I wonder how much Disney+'s numbers will be helped by that tranche of subscribers.
> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?
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> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?
May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape
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Why do you say it's a fixed amount of content? Finite, sure, but it's not fixed.
Once you see a detective show, you basically seen 80% of all detective shows. That's why it seems that there can be nothing to watch, because 80% is basically a rehash, just with different characters and slightly different plots.
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> kids love repeat content Then may I suggest a DVD player?
May I humbly suggest that VHS is superior to DVD for young children, because you can manually censor naughty bits out of “too adult” movies by scratching the magnetic coating off the tape
I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.
When reducing copyright terms or eliminating copyright comes up, there’s always someone posting about how horrible it’ll be if the rate of creation of new media plummets, and I just cannot relate. I’m not even going to get through every video game that’s probably worth playing, that already exists, before I die, and that’s a fairly new medium. Music? TV? Film? Books? LOL. LMFAO. If all publishing magically entirely s…
And, once we find the cutoff point, can we make copyright terms for works published after that point infinite, since you don't need them for QOL anyway?
I don’t really care about “new” content. Similar to video games. I consume if it is new or old. If I can’t find content then I’m done with the service. Unfortunately on all these platforms discovery is horrible unless they want you to find it.
I just want a complete list of what's available, alphabetically, and divided by broad genre. But apparently these services assume everyone is too dumb to scroll through a long list and find things on their own. So there's a landing page where the same titles appear in four different places on the same page, you have no idea what's available, items disappear without warning because of licensing issues, and the UI look…